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Important Questions on Physical World and Measurement

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A spherometer has 20 threads per cm. Its circular scale has 100 divisions. The least count of the sphere is
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Match the physical quantities with their correct SI units.

  List-I   List-II
(A) Planck's constant (I) kg m s-2
(B) Torque (II) kg-1 m3
(C) Weight (III) m2 kg s-1
(D) Specific volume (IV) kg m2 s-2

The correct match is

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A person in front of a mountain is beating a drum at the rate of 40 per minute and hears no distinct echo. If the person moves 90 m closer to the mountain, he has to beat the drum at 60 per minute to not hear any distinct echo. The speed of sound is
 
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The nearest star to our solar system is 4.3 light years away. The distance of this star in Parsec is (Mean distance between the earth and the sun =1.5×1011 m and one light year =9.46×1015 m
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The moon subtends an angle of 57 min at the base-line equal to the radius of the earth. What is the distance of the moon from the earth?
[radius of the earth=6.4×106 m]

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The moon's distance from the earth is 360000 km and its diameter subtends an angle of 42' at the eye of the observer. The diameter of the moon is
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A person observes that the full length of a train subtends an angle of 15°. If the distance between the train and the person is 3 km, the length of the train, calculated using parallax method, in meters is
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To measure the distance of a planet from the earth which method is used?
 
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Star A is farther than star B. Which star will have a large parallax angle? 
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The angular diameter of the sun is 1920". If the distance of the sun from the earth is 1.5×1011 m, then the linear diameter of the sun is
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Moon is seen to be of 1/2° diameter from the earth. What must be the relative size of the moon as compared to the earth.
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A person observes that the full length of a train subtends an angle of 15°. If the distance between the train and the person is 3 km, the length of the train, calculated using parallax method, in meters is
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Compressional wave pulse are sent to the bottom of sea from a ship and the echo is heard after 2 s. If bulk modulus of elasticity of water is I2×109N m-2and mean temperature is 4°C, the depth of the sea will be
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From parallax measurement, the sun is found to be at a distance of about 400 times of earth-moon distance. Estimate the ratio of sun-earth diameters.
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The moon subtends an angle of 57 min at the base-line equal to the radius of the earth. What is the distance of the moon from the earth? [radius of the earth=6.4×106 m]
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The angular diameter of the sun is 1920". If the distance of the sun from the earth is 1.5×1011 m, then the linear diameter of the sun is